Hi,

          I have had this little idea for a bit now, but thought of a way to try it out, no design things as this is mostly a file tweak and map build and html storyline for a "campaign".

I imagine the advent and tec and vasari have been at war, at least in the context of this campaign, for fifty years now. And they are almost completely wiped out. The advent have one capital carrier left with a handful of scouts. The tec have 3 capitals and their cruisers, but no smaller support craft and their heavy end capital is gone in the last major battle between them and the vasari. The pirates have joined the tec, and are now fighting the vasari, who have 4 capitals, but no cruisers or smaller support vessels, and no colonizing ability. They have their one world and that is it. 

I want to build about 5 maps, starting with pretty much half the specs as current, with smaller and smaller resources available. Just enough to get a bare minimum of research and continue the battle. No high end superweapons are available in this modded version of the maps. Each map will get bleaker, and i have been thinking the specs will have to be diminished with a series of 5 individual gameinfo folders that get harsher and harsher. At the end of course the vasari and the tec, and of course the advent will be down to only a handful of ships. The advent already are, so the battles will get rougher and rougher for the tec and the  vasari, leaving them with only one or two ships each in the last stage.

The maps can be made easily enough in the map editor instead of using the galaxy forge as those can be loaded into the mod folder and function without messing with moving the galaxy forge maps to the original install of the game.

In addition, i will have to make an html story, with pictures and of course the story of how it all gets worse and worse. 

Sort of a creative writing/modding/gaming thingy.  

Anyway, i dont know how long it will take to put it all together, but wanted to let everyone know.    I guess im trying something a little more ambitious than just tweaking file specs.    Haha.

Oh... the really hard part, at least for me, is getting the ships of course to "look" right. I mean, after fifty years, these poor ships are going to rather beat up.    I want to get DanMan's derelict tec ships, and he said he was going to do derelicts for the vasari and the advent as well, so well... really that will have to be with his permission and i hope that is okie to borrow like that. 

Anyway, that is all i can think of now, it is late and i am rather brain dead. If there is something i am missing i will try to add it here in this thread. Oh... I guess some people may want it to be this or that, but really, i am not a coder, and so many of the cool mods on the site are beyond my capabilities. I just hope people can play it, or enjoy it as a sort of "campaign" story/mod and tip their thanks to DanMan, if he lets me use his derelict ships. 

Have a good night and take care and keep modding!! 

-Teal